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1
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Israel

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located on land that links West Asia to North Africa

-established under David

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Canaan-

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land of Israel, Promise land

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Canaanites

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first people to live in Canaan

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Abraham

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given Canaan by God as Promise land

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Abraham descendants

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Israelites

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Philistines

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indo-european people

-lived along Mediterranean coast of Israel

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Palestine

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  • land of Philistines
  • named after the Philistines
  • currently occupied by Israel
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United Monarchy

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  • refers to Israel under reign of David (1000 b.c)
  • northern and southern region
  • northern region falls to Assyrians
  • southern region falls to Babylonians
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Romans

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general Pompey incorporated Palestine into Roman empire

  • Drove out the Jewish from Rome and spread them across the middle east
  • 70 A.D. Romans destroyed Jewish temple in Jerusalem
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10
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Diaspora

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scattering

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1000 A.D

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Israel takes on Arab identity

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1516

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Ottomans take over Palestine

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Zion

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poetic name for Jerusalem, pre-Canannite word

-means all of Jerusalem, all of Palestine

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Zionism

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return of Jews to promise land, rooted in Hebrew scriptures

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Practical zionism

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Jews settling in Promise Land, practicing agriculture and practicing religion in Promise land
-emigration into Palestine (began in 1881)

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Political zionist

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create Jewish state in Palestine=goal

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Alfred Dreyfus

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captain in french military, was accused as being an agent for Germans

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Henzl

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believed Jews should have home of their own

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Der Judenstaat (1896)

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book by Herzl that talked about how political zionism could take place

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1917 Balfour Declaration

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letter written by James Balfour to Lord Rothschild that British will support promise of Palestine land to Jews

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Mandate

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allowed European Jews to come into Palestine

-British in charge of allowing immigration of Jews into Palestine

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Theodor Herzl

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1860-1904
Jewish journalist and founder of the Zionist movement
urging the creation of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine

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Lord Rothschild

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-British lord that James Balfour wrote letter to regarding Jewish settlement

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1894 Dreyfus Affair

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Jewish french military guy was accused as being an agent for Germans, even though he wasn’t. people shocked that loyal French Jew, who was loyal state and served in military, didn’t receive fair trial and instead became the victim of anti-Jewish hatred. Evidence for Theodor Herzl to think that assimilation was no defense against antisemitism… Zionism and the creation of a Jewish State is only solution to the problem of antisemitism.

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Oslo accord 1993

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agreement signed between Israel prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO

  • both side agreed to an establishment of a Palestinian Authority to govern West Bank and Gaza Strip
  • never successfully implemented
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Hamas

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Palestinian Islamist political organization and militant group that has waged war on Israel since the group’s 1987 founding, most notably through suicide bombings and rocket attacks. It seeks to replace Israel with a Palestinian state.

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May 14, 1948

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declared state of Israel

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1897 World Zionist Congress

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Theodor Herzl ran this. Symbolic parliament for the small minority[8] of Jewry in agreement with the implementation of Zionist goals
-Held in Basel, Switzerland

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Israel-Palestine Conflict

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fight over land that one side claims to be theirs

  • origin of conflict dates back to Zionist movement in early 20th century
  • Jews began settling in Palestine where Jews were living
  • those already inhabiting the area= Palestinians (i believe they’re Arabic??)
30
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Deir Yassin

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a village near Jerusalem where Zionist terrorists killed women and children
-premeditated attack meant to encourage Palestinians to flee

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War of Independence

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israel beat countries (like egypt and iraq) and became its own independent nation

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Nakba

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when Palestinians fled after Israel independence

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Yasir Arafat

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first leader of Palestinian Authority

-notoriously corrupt

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1967 War

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Israel captured Gaza, West bank, Golan Heights, and Sinai

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Occupied Territories

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-include West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza Strip, and Golan Heights

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Sinai

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Given back to Egypt after 1967 War

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Black September

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1970

-11 Israeli athletes were killed during Olymipics

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Golan Heights

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recognized as Syrian territory, bu occupied by Israel

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